Kenya’s LOAC Manual (1997) provides: “No physical or mental torture, nor any form of coercion may be used to obtain [information].” It stipulates: “No physical or mental torture of prisoners is permitted.” The manual restates common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

Kenya, Law of Armed Conflict, Military Basic Course (ORS), 4 Précis, The School of Military Police, 1997, Précis No. 2, pp. 5–6, and Précis No. 3, pp. 8 and 14.

Kenya’s Geneva Conventions Act (1968) punishes “any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether within or outside Kenya commits, or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of any grave breach of any of the [1949 Geneva] Conventions”.

Kenya, Geneva Conventions Act, 1968, Section 3(1).

Kenya’s Constitution (1992) provides that no person shall be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.